I was so busy with school in November that I didn't get a chance to make a post about the books that I read that month, so I'm combining my November and December books here! I'm pretty proud of how much I was able to read with everything that I had going on. I wasn't quite at the rate that I was at over the summer, but I was able to read more books than I've been able to since school started, which is wonderful!

Picketts Charge, the suicidal charge led by Robert E. Lee on the last day of Gettysburg, serves as the powerful climax of this Civil War novel, told from the unique perspectives of three girls.
Thirteen-year-old Annie Gordon, disguised as a boy, sells herself as a substitute soldier and joins the Portsmouth Rifles of the Ninth Virginia Army as they march north to Gettysburg. In Gettysburg lives fourteen-year-old Tillie Pierce, the frivolous daughter of a local merchant whose romanticized notion of war is quickly disabused once the fighting begins. Also in Gettysburg are Grace Bryan and her father, who refuse to flee with the other free blacks who fear that the rebels will arrest them as fugitive slaves.
The powerful, gripping novel follows the fates of these girls, fates that reflect the tragedies and triumphs, the humanity, heartache, and heroism of this most dreadful Civil War battle. (source)

Cousins and best friends, Lizzie and Rosanna live in Gettysburg during the outbreak of the Civil WarFifteen year old Lizzie, practical and reliable is stuck working at her family’s business instead of studying to become a teacher when her brother and father goes off to war. Unflinchingly loyal, she takes on the tasks of running a shop and helping her mother at home.Rosanna - sent to Gettysburg to help her older sister is the dreamer, the romantic. Her ties to Richmond leads her to have strong sympathy towards the Confederate cause. She gets swept up in the romance of the South and that of a Confederate officer.These two cousins face difficulties when war breaks out and they are separated. It would take one of the war’s bloodiest battle to reunite them. Told in chapters that change from Lizzie to Rosanna, Lisa Klein portrays the harsh realities - the sacrifices and challenges - of war. I really enjoyed the switch of Lizzie’s narration to Rosanna’s diary entries. It made the switching perspectives more easier to grasp. Lizzie and Rosanna are strong characters and the South is humanize. An amazing historical read.